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- From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP)
- Subject: Re: One-line patch and 0.97 p2 (was: Whining...)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.184933.12800@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Sender: usenet@news.acns.nwu.edu (Usenet on news.acns)
- Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
- Organization: You must be kidding!
- References: <1992Aug13.133700.9139@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1992Aug18.011305.27223@access.usask.ca> <1992Aug18.062556.6342@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:49:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.062556.6342@klaava.Helsinki.FI> of comp.os.linux,
- torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
- >
- > It's a valid gripe, and I'll probably make a binary available when I
- > release patch2 (this weekend). patch1 was a very hurried release: I
- > wouldn't have released it if it wasn't for the fact that I wanted to
- > hear comments about the speed-up (if any). As it turned out, patch1 is
- > perfectly ok (especially after the 1-line patch), and doesn't have any
- > more problems than any other release, but I wasn't sure when I made it.
- >
-
- The fabled "one-line patch" seems somewhat elusive... I haven't seen it
- anywhere. Could you *please* include it with 0.97p2? Considering that
- patch will gracefully reject any already applied patches, that seems not
- too worrisome.
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- /hpa
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